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Thursday, November 25, 2010

England has best heart surgeons in Europe: report

For the first time comprehensive data on cardiac surgery across 23 countries has been compared. Patients in the NHS in England and Wales were 25 per cent more likely to survive their operation and recovered faster than the European average, the report found. It means around 250 more patients survive surgery each year because their operations were in England or Wales - Telegraph